Catchment Monitoring for Scaling and Assimilation of Soil Moisture and Streamflow C. Rüdiger a , R.E. Davidson b , H.M. Hemakumara b , J.P. Walker a , J.D. Kalma b , G.R. Willgoose c , and P.R. Houser d a Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., University of Melbourne, Australia b School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia c School of Geography, University of Leeds, United Kingdom d Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA GSFC, USA
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Catchment Monitoring for Scaling and Assimilation of Soil Moisture and Streamflow
Catchment Monitoring for Scaling and Assimilation of Soil Moisture and Streamflow. C. Rüdiger a , R.E. Davidson b , H.M. Hemakumara b , J.P. Walker a , J.D. Kalma b , G.R. Willgoose c , and P.R. Houser d a Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., University of Melbourne, Australia - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Catchment Monitoring for Scaling and Assimilation of
Soil Moisture and Streamflow
C. Rüdigera, R.E. Davidsonb, H.M. Hemakumarab, J.P. Walkera,J.D. Kalmab, G.R. Willgoosec, and P.R. Houserd
a Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., University of Melbourne, Australiab School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia
c School of Geography, University of Leeds, United Kingdomd Hydrological Sciences Branch, NASA GSFC, USA
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Overview
• Applications of soil moisture data
• Remote sensing of soil moisture
• Field site description
• Future work
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Soil Moisture? What for?Drought monitoring
Flood prediction
Irrigation policies
Weather forecasting
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New Methods and Approaches
New Methods:• Downscaling of low resolution measurements• Estimation of root zone soil moisture from satellite
measurements• Estimation of soil moisture under dense vegetation
Approaches:• Development of algorithms for downscaling• Assimilation of surface soil moisture data for retrieval of
root zone soil moisture• Assimilation of streamflow data for soil moisture
estimates
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Field Site
Goulburn River Catchment (NSW)– Proximity to Newcastle– Size and geophysical
properties– Cleared areas– Division into 4 subcatchments– Distance to the sea
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Vegetation and Soils
50km
40km
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Instrumentation• Installation of …
– 2 weather stations and several pluviometers– 26 soil moisture monitoring sites– 1 flume and 5 stream gauges
• Use of …– 3 existing weather stations– 3 stream gauges– numerous rain gauges
• Collected data will be used for …– Scaling purposes– Soil moisture data assimilation into an LSM– Streamflow data assimilation into an LSM– AMSR-E validation
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Acknowledgments
• Australian Research Council (ARC-DP grant 0209724)
• National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), USA
• National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand